The bed at the bottom of the slope
Buy nothing yetMove the table before you buy the pergola.
Before you buy a pergola, move the table.
Every change below is put into the plan and the whole model is run again. That is why a pergola's winter cost shows up here without anybody having written it down, and why the cheapest thing that actually buys hours back is allowed to win.
Reading at
Where it stands now
Something growing here
Middle of the low bed does not work for growing things on a day like this, and how long it stays wet is why.
“No” means the model does not support this use under the conditions being read. The controlling limits are listed below.
Past the limit How long it stays wet is about 24h — 14h over (at most 10h)Estimate: Worked out, but at least one input was assumed rather than measured.
An outdoor cushion soaked here in Oct would not dry before nightfall.
Roots and foliage sitting wet kill more plants than the wrong hardiness zone does.
Past the limit Hours of direct sun is 0h — 1.5h under (at least 1.5h)Worked out: Computed from the geometry, the sun and the weather you gave it.
Effectively no direct sun reaches this spot on this date.
Some direct sun, even briefly, changes what is possible here.
What would change this. This would change if how long it stays wet were measured and came out differently. The figure is an estimate, not a tape.
Confidence medium (60%). Enough to point in a direction, not enough to buy against.
What this answer was built from
- Use
- Something growing here
- Place
- Middle of the low bed
- Weather
- Cold continental, short intense summer, long hard winter (scenario shape) (from a published source)
- Method
- A whole day in October, traced against the scene rather than read at one hour